Annette Seiltgen

Soprano

Profil

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During the 2016/17 season she will sing the Mother (Gertrud) (“Hansel and Gretel”) at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern and the Theatre Chemnitz. She will give guest performances as Fata Morgana (“The Love for Three Oranges”) at the Aalto-Musiktheater Essen. In May 2017 she will appear once again as Isolde (“Tristan und Isolde”) at the Landestheater Niederbayern. In June 2017 she will will sing Senta (“The flying Dutchman”) in a new production for the Opernfestspiele Heidenheim conducted by Marcus Bosc

Biographie

Annette Seiltgen grew up in an artistic environment. Her father was a stage director and led the Municipal Theatre Ingolstadt for many years. Her mother is concert singer Emmy Lisken (Seiltgen). During her school years Annette acted as an extra at the theatre and sang in several choirs. She studied singing under her mother at the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg. During her studies she became a member of the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

In 1991 she won third prize in the Bertelsmann competition “Neue Stimmen”. In 1993 she was awarded the Bavarian State’s Promotional Prize for Young Artists for her outstanding achievements. In 1995 she was awarded 4th prize in the Queen Sonja International Competition in Oslo. In 1998 she was mentioned as one of the best young singers by the journal OPERNWELT.

The singer began her career as a mezzosoprano at the Kassel State Theatre and soon moved on to the State Theatre at Gärtnerplatz in Munich. From 1996 to 2011 she was part of the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (DOR) Düsseldorf/Duisburg. During this time she sang important lyric and dramatic mezzo-soprano roles such as Ruggiero (“Alcina”), Sesto (“La clemenza di Tito”), Octavian (“The Knight of the Rose”), Composer (“Ariadne on Naxos”), Adalgisa (“Norma”), Brangäne (“Tristan and Isolde”), Fricka (“Valkyrie”), Venus (“Tannhäuser”) and many other roles.

Her activities as concert singer include recordings with national TV channel ZDF, the Hessian and Bavarian Public Radio and VARA Radio Amsterdam.

During her time at Deutsche Oper am Rhein she began her shift towards dramatic soprano roles such as Cassandre (“Les Troyens”) and Leonore (“Fidelio”). She achieved great success in the title role of Salome at both Mainz State Theatre (2010) and at the Komische Oper Berlin (2011 and 2012). She also received much recognition for her debut as Medea (“Fremd”), at Hans Thomalla’s premiere at the Stuttgart State Opera, for which she received outstanding acclaim from the national and international press. Following this in 2013 she was involved in a Salome production at the Municipal Münster Theatre and played a role debut as Senta (“The Flying Dutchman”) at Koblenz Theatre. At the Komische Oper Berlin she sang Fata Morgana (“The Love for Three Oranges”) in 2014. During this time she also devoted herself to creating a song recital “ALTE HEIMAT – NEUE HEIMAT” at the Konzertverein Ingolstadt, which she combined with the youth project “WEIMARER REPUBLIK & NS-REGIME. In the same year she sang the role of Brangäne (“Tristan and Isolde”) for the last time at the Staatsheater Darmstadt.

Highlight of the 2015/16 season was her debut as Isolde (“Tristan and Isolde”) at the Landestheater Niederbayern, which won critical acclaim in the press, including opera magazines. The production received star rating from the online magazine “Der Opernfreund” for its outstanding quality.

During the 2016/17 season she will sing the Mother (Gertrud) (“Hansel and Gretel”) at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern and the Theatre Chemnitz. She will give guest performances as Fata Morgana (“The Love for Three Oranges”) at the Aalto-Musiktheater Essen. In May 2017 she will appear once again as Isolde (“Tristan und Isolde”) at the Landestheater Niederbayern. In June 2017 she will will sing Senta (“The flying Dutchman”) in a new production for the Opernfestspiele Heidenheim conducted by Marcus Bosch.